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October 2016
From worst-case scenario to participatory plan: Lessons from a Mexican village for community development and planning education
Marie Kennedy is Professor Emerita in Community Planning, University of Massachusetts Boston, and a former Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles. Throughout her academic career she has combined the roles of activist and scholar, working in and writing about community development, planning education and participatory action research. Over the years, Marie has worked with and/or written about community and worker organizations and social movements in the Greater Boston area, San Francisco and Los Angeles,…
Find out more »Premier of “Count Me In” Documentary
“Count Me In,” the first in-depth documentary about participatory budgeting, a burgeoning national movement that started in Chicago, tells a rare good-news story about money and voting, tracking the efforts of regular Chicagoans who are rolling up their sleeves to make an impact in their neighborhoods. A special screening in Chicago will be followed by a discussion of the film and the future of participatory budgeting. The film, produced by Chicago-based Sommer Filmworks LLC, presented nationally by WTTW Chicago and…
Find out more »The Building Blocks Forum: Restorative Approaches to Public Safety
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Find out more »November 2016
Death By ‘Double-Tap’: (Undoing) Racial Logics in the Age of Drone Warfare
This talk examines the contemporary expansion of drone strikes and extra-judicial “targeted killings” in the context of US global counterterrorism and counterinsurgency campaigns. My principal goal is to illuminate the differential “disposition matrix” of misery produced by the state and to interrogate the questions conjured by this violence for coalitional politics in the drone age. The talk unfolds in three parts. The first section offers a primer on the geopolitical and racial logics of drone wars as the latest installment…
Find out more »Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life
Professor Stovall’s faculty scholar project, Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life organizes legal jurisprudence theory, post-colonial theory and philosophy of race to interrogate state-sanctioned violence, urban space and the politics of exclusion. As a project slated for the Spring 2016 semester, the project draws attention to policy formation and implementation as ideological rationales for containment and marginalization. Because school closings, destruction of public housing and federal corruption statues are primarily investigated as…
Find out more »Building the City of Spectacle Book Talk, Signing and Reception
JOIN US FOR A BOOK SIGNING AND RECEPTION CELEBRATING THE LAUNCH OF "Building the City of Spectacle" By Costas Spirou and Dennis R. Judd Monday, November 14 1-2 p.m. University of Illinois at Chicago Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives 801 S. Morgan St., 3rd Floor Chicago, IL 60607 For questions and to RSVP, contact Andrea Smith at andsmith@uic.edu. Light refreshments will be served. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. The…
Find out more »UTC Event: TMA Shuttle Bug Bus Service
SUBJECT: TMA Shuttle Bug Bus Service Focus of UTC Seminar Series November 17 DATE: Thursday November 17 TIME: Noon to 1 pm VENUE: GCI Conference Room, 4th Floor, CUPPA Hall TOPIC: The TMA Shuttle Bug bus service. ABOUT THE SHUTTLE BUG: This bus service has 14 routes serving more than 30 companies in Cook and Lake counties and provides door-to-door service for workers to Metra stations and the CTA Yellow Line. This model helps reduce congestion and improve air quality.…
Find out more »Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change
Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate governance and the connections between urban sustainability and economic development and innovation. Her third book, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development (Oxford Univ. Press), examines how cities are creating economic development opportunities in several green sectors and discusses the state and national policy needed to support these efforts. Emerald Cities builds on her 2002 book, Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for…
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